Phone battery explodes, 4 kids hurt

Four children were injured when a mobile phone battery exploded at Lunguri village in Ganjam district of Odisha on Monday.

According to police sources, the children were playing with a discarded mobile phone battery when the blast occurred. The injured children were between 10 and 12 years. Luckily none of them received lethal injury in the blast, the sources said.

One of the children had found a discarded phone battery and they were trying to connect it to an LED bulb when it exploded.

Another incident

In a similar incident, a 13-year-old student of Class VIII was injured on Monday at Kalimatu village of Nupada district when the battery of a mobile phone exploded. The incident happened when the boy was charging the phone. His right eye was completely damaged.

On March 17, a girl named Uma Oram (18) of Kheriakani village of Jharsuguda district died when the battery of her cell phone exploded while she was talking. The mobile phone was connected to the charger at the time of the incident.